Eight Secrets of Success

What to do with your life

In which John answers the oft-asked question, "How do I figure out what to do with my life?" Along the way, he discusses adulthood, careers, movies, and the meaning of life and stuff.

35 Quotes On How To Care Less About What Others Think

Open letter to students returning to school

How to speak so that people want to listen

The importance of kindness

The Best Motivational Video - Be Phenomenal

Get inspired from some great commencement speeches

Inc - 12 pieces of valuable life advice from the greatest commencement speeches of all time

The best commencement speeches ever

Jamaal Nelson TedxYouth

Jamaal Nelson was born and raised in the South Bronx. Growing-up he faced many of the well known challenges endemic to inner-city living: drugs, gangs, and crushing poverty. Despite these challenges, including a severe leaning disability, Jamaal was able to earn an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and an M.DIV from Harvard University. Jamaal has a deep passion to make a positive difference in his community and was recently elected to the office of District Leader serving the West Harlem community. Jamaal is an ordained clergy-person married to an amazing woman and has two beautiful daughters.

What The Greatest Self-Help Books Of The Last Decades Can Teach You In 7 Minutes

From a Forbes magazine article, here are some common threads between some of the great personal development non-fiction books that Blinklist has covered in the past decades:

Millennials - The Next Greatest Generation?

In this hour, we hear from TED speakers searching to define themselves and their generation.

How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?

It has been known for some time that the amount of sleep people get has, on average, declined over the years.This has happened for a whole range of reasons, not least because we live in a culture where people are encouraged to think of sleep as a luxury - something you can easily cut back on. After all, that's what caffeine is for - to jolt you back into life. But while the average amount of sleep we are getting has fallen, rates of obesity and diabetes have soared. Could the two be connected? Click here to read the article.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

WSJ: 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You

Here's one great quote from the article: You'll never read the following obituary: "Bob Smith died yesterday at the age of 74. He finished life in 186th place." Click on the picture below to read the entire article:

How to make stress your friend

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

Nice preteens don't finish last

Kindness matters – if a child wants to be happy and popular, researchers say. Click on the image below to read the full article:

I don't believe in genius

Is there a real you?

One of the best known philosophers in the UK, Julian will ask the question 'Is There A Real You? He will draw on the research supporting his latest book 'The Ego Trick' and challenge our audience to reflect on their understanding of the 'Self'.

ESPN - Rainey's Football Career Derailed

QB Jacob Rainey had aspirations of winning the Heisman Trophy and making the NFL. After a hit to the knee, his leg needed to be amputated. Rainey's football career didn't end here. He got a second chance.

Jacob Barnett: Forget What You Know

Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician and child prodigy. At 8 years old, Jacob began sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI. After being diagnosed with autism since the age of two and placed in his school's special ed. program, Jacob's teachers and doctors were astonished to learn he was able to teach calculus to college students.

At age nine, while playing with shapes, Jacob built a series of mathematical models that expanded Einstein's field of relativity. A professor at Princeton reviewed his work and confirmed that it was groundbreaking and could someday result in a Nobel Prize. At age 10, Jacob was formally accepted to the University as a full-time college student and went straight into a paid research position in the field of condensed matter physics. For his original work in this field, Jacob set a record, becoming the world's youngest astrophysics researcher. His paper was subsequently accepted for publication by Physical Review A, a scientific journal shared on sites such as NASA, the Smithsonian, and Harvard's webpage. Jacob's work aims to help improve the way light travels in technology.

How Two Decisions Led Me to Olympic Glory

From setback and injury to an Olympic gold medal -- see how confidently making decisions led one bobsledder down an unexpected pathway to victory

Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie and innovate!

The last thing Rodney Mullen, the godfather of street skating, wanted were competitive victories. In this exuberant talk he shares his love of the open skateboarding community and how the unique environments it plays in drive the creation of new tricks -- fostering prolific ingenuity purely for passion's sake.

Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team

Tom Wujec from Autodesk presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem" -- a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?

How to build your creative confidence

Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create.

Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do

There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him. Joshua Foer is a science writer who 'accidentally' won the U.S. Memory Championship.

Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects -- a robotic hummingbird, a prosthetic arm controlled by thought, and, well, the internet -- that her agency has created by not worrying that they might fail. (Followed by a Q&A with TED's Chris Anderson).

The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it)

Nervous? How to ditch the pre-event performance jitters.

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